What contributes to the enhanced use of customer, competition and technology knowledge for product innovation performance?. A survey of multinational industrial companies' subsidiaries operating in China

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-218

  Zhang, Junfeng ^a   Hoenig, Scott ^b   Di Benedetto, Anthony ^c   Lancioni, Richard A ^c   Phatak, Arvind ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Knowledge flow; Knowledge management; Product innovation performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449107995     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2008.12.007     Document Type: Article

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